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Today in entertainment history: March 24

ON THIS DAY IN 1958: Elvis Presley was inducted into the Army in Memphis, Tennessee. He was discharged in 1960.
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1955: The Tennessee Williams play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” opened on Broadway.

1958: Elvis Presley was inducted into the Army in Memphis, Tennessee. He was discharged in 1960.

1973: Singer Lou Reed was bitten on his rear end by a concertgoer who leaped on stage in Buffalo, New York, and shouted “Leather!” Reed commented afterward that, in his words, “America seems to breed real animals.”

1986: Van Halen released their “5150” album, their first with Sammy Hagar on vocals.